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Checking In on 5 Stocks for April the Giraffe, and Picking 5 More

A year ago, the world was waiting for, and then celebrating, the birth of April the giraffe’s baby, Tajiri.

Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner regularly recommends sets of stocks on the Rule Breaker Investing podcast -- essentially giving us all a free taste of the choices he and his team make in Motley Fool Supernova's portfolio universe. And he holds himself accountable, annually going back over those five-stock micro portfolios to let everyone see how he scored against the benchmark of the broader market.

Right now, it's time for that yearly review of the ones he picked to honor the month, and also the briefly famous pregnant giraffe: five companies, and the first letters of their tickers spelled out A-P-R-I-L. Then, we get a new batch: five stocks Gardner owns that he thinks you should own, too.

A full transcript follows the video.

This video was recorded on April 18, 2018.

David Gardner: And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. It's been a delightful month, already. It's always fun when spring arrives -- even though in the Washington, D.C. area, anyway, over the last couple of days it's been winter, not spring -- but it's always fun when spring arrives.

And it's been fun on this show. Last week was a true highlight for me. A treat. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did having my brother Tom in and our longtime Motley Fool producer and friend, Mac Greer, going over some of the clips from our radio past. That was Blast From The Radio Past, Vol I.

And the week before that, to kick off April, it was time to talk about company culture, something we do a couple of times a year on this show. It was Company Culture Tips, Vol. IV: What's Your Motley? What's your motley? I hope that you have one. But we can keep it rhetorical for now, and if you're a new listener wondering what the heck I'm talking about, just go ahead, click back through a couple of podcasts on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and listen again to What's Your Motley?

And now I think it was as Monty Python once said -- And Now For Something Completely Different -- this week I'm going to be picking some stocks, something I do every couple of months on this podcast. Not only that, but we're going to start by reviewing picks that I made one year ago this week.

That is the main meat of this week's podcast, but before we get into it, I just wanted to talk a little bit about what we're doing at Rule Breaker Investing. You may have noticed that I said last week was Blast From The Radio Past, Vol. I, and the week before, Company Culture Tips, Vol. IV.

As a longtime fan, and as a little kid watching Saturday Night Live back in the day [a longtime fan of the show], I remember that there were series where they would bring back a character from one week to the next. I remember Father Guido Sarducci way back in the day. More recently, but still quite a long time ago, Dana Carvey being The Church Lady. So, if you're a Saturday Night Live fan, you know what I'm talking about. You get to know a character, it becomes a series, and it recurs.

And that's really the fabric of this podcast. I've built on the foundation -- on the bones -- of how Saturday Night Live rolls. So, in fact, this five-stock sampler is one of our series. I was counting them up, because I like to do this. I like to tag things and then score things. It turns out we have 15 active series on this podcast.

And as I sit, by myself usually, with a cup of coffee a day or two before this podcast each week and think about what I want to do this week, I usually rely on my series that I've built up with you and your help [my listeners over the course of time] what I want to do, and so you probably will recognize some of our other series.

Blast From The Radio Past from last week -- that will be a new series we do a few times a year. I can't wait for the next one. The Market Cap Game Show with Matt Argersinger. That's one that recurs. My Pet Peeves is another series I go back to not too often. Maybe once a year. That one would be too self-indulgent. But we've got Campfire Stories, Mental Tips, Tricks, And Life Hacks. If you think about my external interviews [for example, speaking with Steven Pinker last month]; that itself is a nice, long list of people that I've had externally to interview. That's another series.

So, I'm just acquainting you with how we think about this show, and if you do a podcast, yourself [you might already have one, or you might be thinking about doing it one day], I recommend this to you as a way of structuring it. Think about what you want to recur. The actual material and each of the components of the series, of course, changes [I'll be picking five different stocks this time], but I hope you enjoy and get acquainted with, familiar with, and maybe even look forward to some of these as they come back, as I once did, awaiting the next appearance of Father Guido Sarducci or The Church Lady.

So, what about this series, then? My five-stock samplers? Well, I'll be picking five stocks, today, and this will be the 14th time I've done that on this show. We haven't called them volumes one to 13th up until now, but I think that I'm going to start at least thinking of it that way, whether or not we call it, so, I want you to realize. This is something that I've done, now, 13 previous times, and part of this series is that I go back and review a year, two, three years later the stocks that I picked in the past.

So, why do we do this? Well, first of all, I want you to know that everything that I do on this show when I'm picking stocks and talking stocks is kind of a sample of the services that I run at The Motley Fool. Motley FoolStock Advisor and Motley FoolRule Breakers are two kinds of entry-level services. I know a lot of you are subscribed to them. All of the stocks that I talk about are pretty much my picks from those two services.

And when you take those two services together, and you make them into one big service at a higher price point with more features [more real-money portfolio "missions," we call them], that's Motley FoolSupernova. So, that's the structure, if you can picture it in your head. It's kind of a triangle with Motley FoolSupernova at the top and then connecting down to those two services that are feeding Supernova: Rule Breakers and Stock Advisor.

So, what I'm doing with this series is I'm giving you a sample of the roughly 220 stocks that I have picked that remain active recommendations in those services: a huge body of work that I and my teams have built up over the course of more than a decade, now; but I'm giving you kind of five here and five there every few months and that's how this series works.

Now, I want to say a couple of more things before reviewing the stocks from last year. One thing I want to say is that I like to pick stocks, and it would be easy for me just to do it within those services and not stick my neck out, here, on this podcast and repick, and make new picks, and be scoring, myself separately. But I think it's all part of always staying outside of your comfort zone. If you remember my interview with Anders Ericsson, the author of the book Peak, which was conducted last October [I highly recommend that to you], you'll know that one of the best ways to make sure you're always growing is to never relax. Never get too comfortable. Always be pushing yourself a little bit more.

And, of course, with this series, it's a game. I've kind of gamified it. I talk about the stocks, but then we score them, and a year later we see how the scores are and how we're doing, and we learn from that. So, that's a really important part of the purpose of this series and so, anytime that you are picking stocks yourself, you're doing the same thing. You're having to decide, and then I hope you're scoring it and seeing how you're doing, and I hope you're winning.

And even when you lose, I hope that you're learning from these lessons from our winners and our losers and you're growing and improving as an investor. That is breaking the rules in a world in which most people are not even thinking about stocks or the stock market. They're content just to kind of mail it in with the index fund as I've often talked about in the past.

But, the premise of Rule Breaker Investing is that you and I, together, can beat the indices. We can beat the market average. And, indeed, to brag briefly here at the start of this podcast, I'm happy to say with every past entrant in this series [every time I've picked five stocks and reviewed them a year or more later], we are literally winning every single time. Our little five-stock portfolios have always been beating the market. I'm not this good. I don't ever expect -- none of us should expect -- to be that consistently right.

We're going to see, this week, whether I can keep the streak going with stocks picked last April, but I want you to know that this is such an important thing that it is worth the time that you and I [spend] to do this podcast together: to make our choices, pick the stocks, and grow our portfolios. I think it's going to reward you.

I hope, like some of our longtime members at The Motley Fool, you'll find and discover that it rewards you way more than you would ever have thought, and the beauty of our approach to investing is we often buy, and we don't very much sell, which means it's not a lot of hard work. We're not trading in and out. We're beating the market substantially by largely just making good choices on the front end and not worrying so much about closing the loop or selling anytime soon.

All of that is preamble. Now let's move on. Five stocks picked this time last year.

For each of these samplers I have a theme. I have a title. And I surprised you. I had a little fun with it last year. I, in fact, listened to the podcast again as I drove into work this morning just to make sure that I was doing my homework, and as it turns out my five stocks last year didn't have a theme that united them all together.

However, there was a little secret at play [that I let you know at the end of last year's podcast] and that is that the five company names [the ticker symbols] -- the first letter of each spelled out the word April, which seemed appropriate.

My talented producer, Rick Engdahl, tends to name every single one of these podcasts and writes the little helpful intro that you can read and see what we're doing from week to week. And Rick, I want to invite you on here for a cameo. Rick, you named this podcast a year ago: Five Stocks For April The Giraffe. At the time I think you mentioned why it was April The Giraffe. I have to admit a year later, now, these stocks are still fresh in my mind, but I can't remember why this was Five Stocks For April The Giraffe.

Rick Engdahl: You don't remember? Doesn't everybody remember April The Giraffe? Well, just to make sure that I was remembering correctly, I went to Google.

Gardner: So, this wasn't necessarily fresh on your mind one year later.

Engdahl: Well, it is fresh on Google's mind, however, because if you type in "april the," the very first entry to come up is giraffe, April The Giraffe...

Gardner: Excellent.

Engdahl: ... who was internet famous a year ago this time because April The Giraffe was about to give birth to a baby giraffe. It was being presented live on YouTube, and so the whole world was tuning in to see this new baby giraffe being born, and everybody was talking about April The Giraffe. That's how we named the episode and today, of course, is the birthday of Tajiri [or Tahiri -- I'm not sure how it's pronounced], which is the baby giraffe's name. So, maybe this will be Five Stocks for Tajiri, today. I don't know.

Gardner: I love it! These stocks are aging along with Tajiri. So, that's April The Giraffe. Rick, thank you!

Engdahl: Maybe these stocks should have been in Tajiri's 529 plan. That would have been nice.

Gardner: We're about to find out. So, Five Stocks For April The Giraffe. They spell it A-P-R-I-L. Let's spend a minute or two going over each one and what's happened.

Stock No. 1: So, the first one was Axon Enterprise (NASDAQ:AAXN). Now, Axon Enterprise had [speaking of names and newness, Rick] just changed its corporate name to that name the very month that we did this podcast a year ago. It used to be known as TASER. But Axon Enterprise -- the same company that sells Tasers and has innovated with the Taser -- changed its name to its other key product, which is its police body cams. And that's such an important trend.

I was talking about that a year ago -- how Axon Enterprise's main profit source [still is today] was the Taser, but as it builds out police body cams [not just here in the U.S., but globally], it's a lower margin. They don't make as much money off its product and they're sort of in development stage, still. They started losing money with that a year ago, and so it was depressing the corporate results.

But, if you really thought about where the world is headed and how this company was leading us there, you recognized beyond the body cams themselves [the Axon body cams]; the company has Evidence.com, which is the website where up in the cloud all of these videos from all these police departments are stored, and that is a subscription service that police departments buy. So, Evidence.com, Axon, and Taser the stock was at $23 when we did this podcast and I picked it a year ago. It's now up to $43.00. So, it's been a tremendous year for Axon, ticker symbol AAXN, up 87%.

Now, I should mention that the S&P 500 over the last year is up 14.5%. We'll round that up to 15% just to give Mr. Market his due, so we're competing against a +15% with each of these picks. I'm going to foreshadow and let you know, dear listener, that this was the best of the five stocks. Nothing did better than +87%. A tremendous year for Axon and I'm really excited that it's in the Rule Breakers portfolio. I hope it's in your portfolio, too. In fact, the name of this sampler, when I pick stocks a little later, is going to be something like Five Stocks That I Own And You Should, Too.

Now, I wish I did own Axon. I don't own all of my 220 picks, but I sure hope you listened a year ago. I know many of you do own Axon through Rule Breakers and wow, what a great year it's been, and I really like this stock going forward. When I picked these stocks for April The Giraffe, unbeknownst to me at the time a year ago, I did say these are for the next three-plus years, so we'll be reviewing this list of stocks each of the next three years. Year one awesome, Axon!

Stock No. 2: Stock No. 2 picked a year ago hasn't done quite as well. In fact, foreshadowing again -- spoiler alert -- this is the one stock that has underperformed the market. It's still up 9%, but Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico -- or PAC is the ticker symbol -- the company that is the leading operator of airports in Mexico was at $100 a share a year ago. It's up to $109 today. So, simple math is a 9% gain.

And so, against the S&P 500 of +15%, that's a -6%. So, this one's in the loss column. I don't have a lot to say about PAC other than this is a stock that we'll continue to recommend. It's a very hard business to compete with. They basically operate these airports with a contract with the government, and they get to run all the concessions and the mall within the airport. That's all part of this business.

I like the stock a lot and it's recovered pretty well since diving right after President Trump was elected and Mexico fell out of favor for a couple of months. If Mexico were a stock for the long term, I'm a buyer and one way you can participate in Mexico's growth over the next couple of decades would be through a stock like Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico. Again, pronounced by somebody who took French in high school.

Stock No. 3: ResMed(NYSE:RMD). This is the company solving sleep apnea with its CPAP devices and this is a company that really innovated and brought that technology to the world. For people who are having trouble sleeping with clogged airways as they're sleeping, ResMed is their best friend.

The stock, a year ago, at $69. Happy to say it's up to, well, just before this podcast taped it was at $99.91, so we'll round that one to $169 to $100 -- that's a 45% gain. Not bad in a world where so many people are told it would just be lucky to pick stocks that would beat the stock market. This one has done it and done it handily, so up 45% over the last year vs. the market's return of 15%. That's a +30%. So, if you're scoring with me, the first one was a +72%, then a -6%, then a +30%. We're solidly in the win column.

Stock No. 4: Let's go to the "I" stock from our April stocks a year ago. That's one of my favorite companies, a stock that I own, and have held for more than a decade, and that would be Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG), the maker of the da Vinci robot, the surgical robot.

Really, it's sort of a misnomer when you say surgical robot. A lot of people picture something that's moving around and performing surgery on people. If you remember some of the scary images from, let's say, Logan's Run and if you remember what happened to Farrah Fawcett Majors in that movie, you have bad feelings when sometimes you think about surgical robots. But no, this is actually kind of a [machine with four arms] that sits over patients and the doctor will be sitting off to the side with his or her hands in gloves that are manipulating the arms of the da Vinci surgical robot. It turns out you don't even have to be in the same room as the patient. You could be in another city and be an expert in operating minimally invasively on patients.

And whether we're talking about a prostatectomy, [the removal of the prostate for prostate cancer], or hysterectomies, colorectal cancer; increasingly the da Vinci surgical robot is the answer, especially for patients who want to walk off the hospital bed faster than they would have in the past when they got cut into by human hands. This minimally invasive surgery that sounds attractive to you does to me, as well, and that's part of the growth story behind this worldwide leader in robotic-assisted surgery. I love Intuitive Surgical and I sure do love the stock price.

Now, we first picked it at Rule Breakers almost 15 years ago at $44 a share, and I was putting that number out last year when I did the podcast for April The Giraffe and "I" was Intuitive Surgical. It had gone from $44 to $794 since we'd held it for a decade plus.

Well, the numbers have all changed a little bit, because in October of last year, just a few months ago, the company did a three for one stock split, so all of the numbers changed a little bit, but now adjusting for that, technically a year ago I picked this stock, then, at $269 a share for you in this podcast, and today I'm happy to say it's up to $422.

So, with the market up 15%, Intuitive Surgical is up 57%, which gives us a big, fat +42% in the win column, juicing our numbers and making -- was it Tajiri, Rick -- even happier as these stocks grow up with that little baby giraffe. They're the same age, and I think we do grow from a percentage standpoint, most of all in our first year, if you think about it, as babies progress from zero to one, and we're seeing some huge growth from these stocks in their first year picked for April a year ago.

Stock No. 5: That leads us to our "L" stock, and L is Live Nation (NYSE:LYV). This is the company that was formed by a merger of Live Nation, the concert venue and rock-star-promoting business that it is. So many musicians, today, of course, make most of their money on tours, since the sale of CDs, you might have noticed, has dropped off a cliff in recent years. Live Nation, then, bought a merger with Ticketmaster, so this is the company that sells you the tickets to come into its venues to watch the entertainment that it's promoting. It's a tremendously powerful model.

I don't see any real competition for this company and actually, thinking backwards through the five stocks for April The Giraffe, think about the companies and how little competition or how dominant they are within their industries. Whether you're Axon Enterprise, I really can't think of an alternative to Taser or police body cams. There are some small competitors out there, but there's no Pepsi that I see to Axon's Coca-Cola, and I would say the same thing for ResMed. I would say the same thing for Intuitive Surgical. Sure, for PAC, our Mexican airport operators and for Live Nation. So, you're starting to look and see into the secrets of how I think about picking stocks and which businesses you and I want to own for years.

Live Nation is a market beater over the last year. At this time last year, it was at $31.50 as we did the show. Today it's at $38.50. It's up 22%. I will never sneeze at that. That's good. I'll take that annualized every year if I could get it against the market's 15% because it's been a good year for the market. That's a +7%.

I'm warming up my five next stocks to pick on this week's podcast, but before we do... You thought I was going to do an ad read. Nope, I'm going to do stats. I'm going to give you the numbers that we just covered.

So, with Axon, Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico, ResMed, Intuitive Surgical, and Live Nation, if you top them up, they're beating the market by a combined 145%. Those in the industry call that alpha. For every percentage point that you've beaten the market you've generated one point of alpha.

There's a site that you may have seen some news stories from Seeking Alpha, which is a popular news site these days, and that's what they mean when they say seeking alpha. You and I are seeking alpha on this show every week, and so what we just generated was 145 combined points of alpha divided by the five stocks. Schoolboy math has me going that the average performer, here, 145% divided by 5% is 29%. So, the average stock we picked for April The Giraffe and you a year ago is 29% ahead of the market after a single year. A great year for the market +15%. These stocks average +44%.

Something remarkable is happening with this podcast. I don't know what to say other than I honestly can't believe that all our five-stock samplers for the last three years are all beating the market -- most them trouncing the market. You and I will certainly know the market has been strong, but the whole point of alpha isn't whether the market is up or down. It's how you're doing vs. the market, and I am very proud to know that these five picks are going to be growing up with Tajiri in the coming years and we're off to a great start.

If anybody ever wants to interview me about these five-stock samplers [you might be a journalist wondering whether people could pick stocks that do beat the market that consistently], I'll be the first to say, by the way, 100% is not a hit rate I will ever be able to maintain, but thinking back, now, over three years, that is a pretty remarkable record of consistency. But whether or not we're right 100% of the time or 75% or 50% of the time, what I really look at are the percentage points of alpha that would generate over and above the market, and that is a remarkable story. So, I hope you enjoy the series as much as I do, and now it's time to pick some new stocks.

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Let's cue it up. Five stocks I own that I think you should own, too. And chances are if you are a longtime Motley Fool member, I would hope you own at least, let's say, two or three of these.

I had the pleasure here in Washington, D.C., last week of MC'ing an event at the National Building Museum for 500 Tar Heels. That's right, it was a University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill alumni gathering and a celebration of the campaign that the school is endeavoring to run to raise literally billions of dollars for the University of North Carolina, but in front of that audience with my Fool cap on, I picked a few stocks and suggested that these would be good stocks for my fellow Tar Heels for the next three-plus years.

So, I'm pulling that list from that event to share with you this week. Yup, I own each of these stocks and let's kick it off alphabetically as I tend to do, unless we're trying to be cute and use an acrostic and name our series after a month. Nope, this one's going to go back to the traditional alphabetical order by company name.

Stock No. 1: The first one up is Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI). ATVI is the ticker symbol. Activision Blizzard is, for me anyway, the worldwide leader. There's some good competition [Electronic Arts and others] in interactive entertainment.

Now, the company's not as dominant in China as some very large Chinese companies, so you and I could debate who the real worldwide leader is. The good news is with a stock like NetEase, which is a big Chinese video game maker and one of those conglomerates, we own that one, too. I like to think that we've got this industry cornered, but I love the future of interactive entertainment, whether it's playing digital card games like Hearthstone, which I do almost every day, even though it's in its fourth or fifth year. I love Hearthstone to great games like Overwatch, which has been a huge hit and is the big e-sport of choice with clubs these days.

You might be following the The Overwatch League, some of you. Cities in the U.S. and abroad paying tens of millions of dollars to have the rights to have a team that's competing in Overwatch. So, e-sports is a big part of Activision Blizzard. Starcraft. Warcraft. World of Warcraft. The list goes on of this company's properties. Love Activision Blizzard. Bobby Kotick, the CEO. I've talked about him before on this show. He's a brilliant asset allocator. He's not even a video gamer.

He also, by the way, had a cameo appearance in one of my favorite films, Moneyball, when Bill James's great story and Michael Lewis's non-fiction book was turned into a movie with Brad Pitt. You'll see Bobby Kotick playing the owner of the Oakland A's in an early scene in that movie. A little trivia tip for Activision Blizzard fans. Anyway, ATVI is Stock No. 1.

Stock No. 2: Stock No. 2, alphabetically, pun intended, is Alphabet. Alphabet, of course, often known as Google with lots of other stuff attached. The ticker symbol is even just still GOOG. I had a good exchange with my friend Scott Phillips, who helps run Motley Fool Australia, and he was taking me to task by email, in a fun way, for organizing alphabetically by ticker. And Scott said -- and quite rightly [I agree, Scott] -- "Aren't we much more about the companies, themselves, and the businesses? Tickers are more for trader talk and people who don't necessarily think about the businesses, often, but the tickers more."

And I agree with you, Scott, so I'm going to order this one by company name and I expect to continue that going forward. And I know if I screw up, first of all, I'll try to blame Rick Engdahl because he's my filter. He's my whipping boy. He's my producer. I would immediately try to blame Rick. But if he didn't accept the blame, or people started realizing my game, here, then you could hold me accountable, Scott, and say, "Hey, Dave! You screwed that up. Make sure you keep these company names ordered alphabetically."

So, thank you, Scott! And yes, thank you Alphabet for being such an amazing company! A company, as I said to my gathered Tar Heels last week, that a lot of us associate, naturally, Alphabet with Google today and search, but 20 years from now our kids will think about Google as the AI company, the artificial intelligence company as artificial intelligence, as Kevin Kelly said on this show a month or two back. It begins to become a ubiquitous thing around us. You know how Wi-Fi is kind of ubiquitous these days and 30 years ago nobody knew what Wi-Fi was?

Well, 30 years from now Kevin Kelly says [I agree with him], AI will be all around us like Wi-Fi, and people will wonder what the world was like before that, and that's the future we're moving into and Alphabet is the leader.

Stock No. 3: Let's go back to the well. So, April last year what was the "I?" Quick quiz at home? That's right. It was Intuitive Surgical. I own the company, and in front of my gathered fellow Heels last week, I put Intuitive Surgical on this list, as well, so I present it for you again today. It reminds us to continue to add to our winners. It was a winner a year ago. It had a three for one stock split, something that I don't personally care about. I don't think we should spend a lot of time talking about stock splits. I realize some people think they're exciting or are confused by them.

I'll just point out that Intuitive Surgical, which has split a few times over our nearly 15 years of acquaintance. I like that stock just as much today, over the next 15 years, as I did 15 years ago. In fact, Intuitive Surgical is more clearly in the lead with more resources today than it was 15 years ago.

This is a company that spends about $250 million a year just on R&D inventing the future. A lot of upstart competitors would dream of having that as their revenues or, even more, their profits. Well, Intuitive Surgical is spending that much just on R&D. Love the company and I look forward to an increasingly minimally invasive future.

Stock No. 4: We're down to the M's. Match Group (NASDAQ:MTCH). Match.com. A lot of older people my age in our 50's or so, we grew up with that over the last 10 or 20 years. To me that's almost like the LinkedIn, but for dating. That's kind of the more corporate, professional world site, but many other people know and use Tinder, which is maybe for a younger generation. I'm sure it's used by people of all ages. Never by me, as a happily married man.

If you've ever heard of Tinder or you like Tinder, guess what? You could be a shareowner in the company that owns Tinder, and beyond just Match.com and Tinder, Match Group has 30 to 40 other sites appealing to many different types of people helping them find other people that they might fall in love with. Maybe get married one day. This is something that sounded bizarre 25 years ago and yet, meeting other people online and forming long-term relationships is increasingly in the top three of how we, as humans, interact with each other. Match Group is the out-and-out leader. Love the company. That's Stock No. 4.

Stock No. 5: And finally, at my speech last week, my joke was the "U" stock [I went down to the letter "U"], and it was University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill we hope you'll give money, and that was the joke. So, I don't think that's appropriate for this five-stock sampler. I think I do need to present a fifth and final stock.

Let's go to Z and let's go with Zillow (NASDAQ:ZG). Zillow and Zillow Group. You know, Zillow has about 150 million people who click in on a monthly basis. They're looking at listings of their house, of other houses in their neighborhood or places that they might want to move. Or just clicking around and looking at celebs' dream houses. All these things can happen on Zillow but, increasingly, the company is clearly the leader and is the friend of realtors.

And last week the company announced it's going to start buying homes, itself. So, you might end up selling your house over Zillow to Zillow. It was a move that was met with some consternation. The stock actually dropped 5% that day, but whether or not the iBuyer approach works for Zillow, which I think it probably will [I think they're very smart], this is the clear leader as we talk about finding properties online, which is a big, robust market and will be for years to come so let's close it out with my fifth stock, Zillow.

And there you have it. The 14th five-stock sampler we've done, here, on Rule Breaker Investing. I hope and trust that these stocks will perform over the following three years. I never insist that they do well in one year, and I'll be astonished if we can beat the market once again, here, because I am way overrated at this point. But they're great companies. It will be fun. I own these stocks and as I said, to kick it off, I hope you own them, too. I think you should.

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